Kelso, WA, USA
I was in my car at a local business waiting for the replenishing crew. Looking at the stars I noticed what looked like a satellite movi
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-05
- Where
- Kelso, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 46.147, -122.908 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-kelso-wa-2012-b51193
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 38 reports logged in Kelso, WA.
- This case is one of 427 Washington reports filed in 2012.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.